Category: Writing
28
May
How to Fight Writer’s Block and Other Authorial Enemies
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Practicing two strategies can help authors fend off lack of time, distractions, and writer’s block—enemies that make writing harder than it needs to be. Writing...
21
May
Love at First Type: It’s Not Always about the First Typeface You See
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Choosing a font can be a daunting task. But with the proper instruction, it doesn’t have to be. Selecting the best typeface for your document...
19
May
Does Using Plain English Help or Hinder International Audiences?
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Does Using Plain English Help or Hinder International Audiences?
30
Apr
Main Idea: Identify Your Topic!
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As writers, we can easily get lost in the details of our topic. How do we stay focused and concise when writing papers? When writing...
23
Apr
Diving into Creative Writing Technicalities
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Sometimes, improving creative writing skills seems daunting—and it can be. But when writers and editors dive deeper into the technicalities of writing, they can fine-tune...
09
Apr
The Truth about Peer Editing
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Peer editing is a common part of the curriculum for writing students, but does it actually teach the students anything? Studies say yes. If you’ve...
27
Mar
The Most Memorable Writing
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A study conducted about semantics and syntax teaches us how to treat important information and make it the most memorable. In technical writing it is...
05
Mar
Online Editing: The Effects of Technology on Future Editors
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“Higher education institutions need to give their students experience drafting, editing, and commenting on each other’s work online.” —Zimmerman and Yohon (2002) I am currently...
02
Mar
What Writing Police Reports Can Teach Us about Technical Editing
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Police reports can teach us a lot about the importance of understanding genre in technical editing. I’ve watched enough American cop shows to know that...
08
Jan
How to Use Episode Structures to Make Readers Think
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Help your authors’ stories become more literary and engaging by studying episode structures in literary fiction. What makes something “literary”? This is a question...
